Hello and welcome to the first of a series of step-by-step tutorial articles aiming to get the most out of the little wonder that is a Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi is a $35 pocket size computer board. The fact that it's small in size and cheap in price made the Raspberry Pi so popular so quick. Launched only a little more than three years ago, the Raspberry Pi board sold over than five millions.

Although the Raspberry Pi was originally built as an educational aid tool to help kids learn about programming, it soon became apparent that the potential of this board can be extended further to a wider range of applications.

What you can do with a Raspberry Pi board is limited only by your own imagination and hard work. Projects range from the straight forward to the more advanced hardcore ones as we shall see in coming articles of this series.

The latest Raspberry Pi is model 2 with the following specs: (not a full list)

A 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU

1GB LPDDR2 SDRAM (2x memory)

Micro SD Card slot

4 USB ports

HDMI port

The thing with Raspberry Pi is that although it seems to be a board for the hobbyist, it's actually a very powerful tool and can be the base for serious functional projects.

I personally have more than a dozen boards at home (and planning to get more!) Most of them are put to good use already. From Media Centers to NAS Server. All the projects were done in my spare time (of which I don't have plenty!), but with a little effort and know-how, you too, can implement your own projects.